An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years old and harbors many surprises.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.